They reclaimed a total of five fields, one is a vegetable field, all of which are planted with vegetables, one is a potato field, specializing in ** potatoes, one is a bud grain field, specializing in bud grains, one is a sweet potato field, specializing in planting sweet potatoes, and one is a seed field, in which some of these vegetables and grains are planted, allowing them to grow naturally, bear fruit, keep seeds, reproduce, and let animals eat them.

The other four fields are located in front of the castle, which is convenient for work and care, but the seed field is far away, at the far reaches of the valley, a little half a day's journey from the castle, as far away as possible from the influence of human habitation, so that it can grow naturally.

The children ploughed a field in the morning, and everyone thought it was a fun job, but after plowing down, they were so tired that they couldn't straighten their waists, and they were all shouting that they were tired to death.

The father and the elders looked at it and laughed one by one, saying that it was not fun. In fact, they don't need to plough the fields, only the rice fields need to soak the fields with water, and they also need to build the feet of the fields.

But how could they have rice? It wasn't until he was done that my father remembered, and he could only smile dumbly.

Yes, it's still hard to change decades of work habits.

However, at this time, my father also secretly made up his mind that he must find rice seeds and grow rice here, so that everyone can eat rice, even if their generation can't eat rice, they must also let the children eat it.

For tens or hundreds of thousands of years, my ancestors grew up eating rice, and three meals a day were rice, but for a few years here, it was actually a grain of rice that had not been eaten, and thinking of the fragrance of rice, everyone was hungry.

The father couldn't bear to sweep the children's excitement, and he didn't break it, otherwise the children would definitely be disappointed when they heard that they had been busy all morning, tired and had back pain, and finally did something useless.

My father told a few adults about his idea, and everyone felt that it was difficult and directionless, but if it was completely by luck, it would only be a waste of effort, saying that this matter should be considered in the long run.

My father also felt that what everyone said made sense, and besides, there was no way to find it for the time being, so I could only talk about it later.

After the rain, the sky is clear, and there is nothing to do for the time being.

The next day, it began to rain again, and it continued to flutter and sprinkle for more than ten days before the rain stopped completely.

A few days after the weather cleared, the rain in the woods and on the grass dried up.

Now that there was still some time left before planting crops, my father decided to be busy with ironmaking for a while.

The men were divided into three groups: one was to make iron from a blast furnace, and to make hammers for crushing the ore, and to make two ploughs, so that the land could be cultivated faster, two to chop wood and burn charcoal, and three to slowly crush the ore with axes.

At the same time, women were arranged to build sheds in the mines, gravel yards, ironworks, charcoal yards and firewood piles to prevent the rainy season.

In this way, the whole family went out again, and the people in the five venues were busy in the dark, and the dogs and wolves were either dissatisfied with the field and running around, or they sat quietly on the ground and watched the masters busy.

Life just goes by slowly.

During this period, a few people had a slight illness, ate some herbs prepared for summer and autumn, rested for a few days, and all got better.

The children grow up very fast, and they are chubby, but when they are clingy, they can't leave people for a moment. The wild boar gave birth to two more litters of piglets, and added twelve piglets.

A female reindeer gave birth to four small babies.

There are so many wild sheep that they can't fit in the barn.

As a last resort, several men had no choice but to stop what they were doing, and hurriedly made another livestock shed that was as big as before, and redivided the cattle into districts.

After there are more livestock, everyone's life is better, you can often eat meat, and you can also add a lot of fertilizer to the field, but it is the hard to beat the grass, in the past, two people in the vicinity of the grass is enough, now you need to arrange three people to grass every day, the farthest is half a day away from home, and there are a lot of dogs to guard, not to mention the danger.

After being busy like this for ten or twenty days, he made two plows with the crude steel made of quenched pig iron that had just been smelted, and my father was so happy that he made a bent wooden plough overnight.

Then he hit four hammers, two kitchen knives, and two killing knives.

It seems that the matter of iron-making can enter a normal state, and it is enough to arrange for some people to work slowly, and the rest of the people should hurry up to cultivate the land and grow crops.

In the days that followed, the sky was sometimes clear, and sometimes it was pouring rain.

My father had to rush to do the farm work, but fortunately the two new ploughs that had just been made played a big role, and the speed of ploughing the land was too fast to say, and the speed of ploughing the land was completely incomparable with a hoe, and in five days, all four plots of land were turned over, and some of the coarse clods were broken with a hoe.

In the vegetable fields, I scattered firewood ashes that had accumulated for more than half a year, and I picked up a few loads of wild sheep dung and sprinkled them all over the ground -- these are all good fertilizers.

Pig dung, sheep dung, eggs, and reindeer dung, which were piled up high outside the castle, were pulled into the fields with wheeled carts, sprinkled with a layer, and made foot fertilizer.

Some of the manure and forage are so sticky that you have to break them by hand, which is very troublesome. These are the base fertilizers for growing crops.

Now there are more livestock and more fertilizer, which can be used freely.

After spreading the bottom manure, after two days of exposure to the sun, the whole field is plowed again, so that the manure is pressed into the ground.

When rain comes, combined with geothermal heat, it can quickly grow crops.

In the past few days, the eldest uncle also made a wooden rake for the vegetable field, which needs to make the soil clods smaller, and it is not enough to rely on the hoe to beat it, so it needs a rake to solve it.

The shape of the rake is a square, the reindeer pulls the two horns on one side, or it can be one side, and the person directly steps on the front and back sides, with the help of the weight of the human body, crushing the clods.

The front and two sides are made of thick planks with a wide hand board, and the planks are fastened together with pins and sockets, and the back side is made of three round wooden sticks, which is the outer frame of the rake.

After the outer frame is done, the thicker and harder wooden sticks are folded into a "8" shape and braided on three round wooden sticks, but the back side is the lower part of the mouth is opened, so that the wooden sticks at both ends are naturally warped, so that the effect of raking the ground is better.

The practice of raking the crops is different, the front and back and left and right sides are thick wooden planks with hand width, and at the same time, the rake knife is inserted downward on the square plank, and the coarse soil clods are chopped up by using the blade of the rake knife, the weight of the human body and the forward pull of the reindeer.

The rake knife is like a scimitar that has been broken in the middle, but the broken part is as thick as a nail, so that the rake knife will not fall out of the knife edge.

Once the field is ready, it's time to plant.

A vegetable patch was planted with half cabbage, a small half radish, and a small piece of coriander and celery.

The cabbage I grow now is ready to eat tender cabbage, and it is fresh to eat. If you want to plant Chinese cabbage, that is, cabbage, you should plant it at the end of summer, and it will grow well in winter.

A sweet potato field, not all used, only in a small corner, a piece of sweet potato seedlings, until the sweet potato sprouts, sweet potato vines grow to two or three spans long before a large area of sweet potatoes are planted, the time to plant sweet potatoes is generally in late spring.

After three or five days, the shoots are obvious, and they are cut into pieces according to the shoots, that is, a bud is cut into pieces, and the potato pieces are planted in the field, and the potatoes can be harvested in the fall. (Some book friends complained that the pace of plot development is a bit slow, which is really embarrassing, maybe this is related to the design of the entire storyline of "Yanzhu Begonia", in the later plot development, this quiet "Tao Yuanming" style of life will soon be broken, they are facing a series of crises and challenges, what is the fate of the protagonist, please look forward to it.) Book friends communicate, shoot bricks, spit bad, please enter the QQ group: 2156222685)